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Blasphemy - Douglas Preston

I have a soft spot for Douglas Preston.  He and Lincoln Child wrote Relic and several other really fun books including Thunderhead.  Thunderhead was the book that got me to visit the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument which is really one of my favorite places.

Blasphemy is the story of a supercollider even bigger then the new one at CERN going online.  When it is fired  up for the test run something very unexpected happens.  I really don’t want to give to much away, but it is a fun ride.  If you liked any of Preston or Child’s other books this one is very enjoyable.

That being said, one of the big conflicts in the book is with the evangelical christians that don’t want the supercollider to go online.  As I was reading it struck me that while fundamentalist christians have a problem with many of the life sciences (genetics, biology, etc…) I haven’t heard the same kind of uproar against the physical sciences.  I’m really not sure why this is the case.

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If you’ve been following the saga of Expelled, the intelligent design movie showing how the poor ID  proponents are being harassed by big bad science, then Expelled Exposed won’t be any news to you.  I have been seeing add daily on Headline News recently though and though I would put a link up to the National Center for Science Education’s website.

Take a look at it.  They’ve done a good job address most of the more egregious lies of the movie as well as showing the duplicity that was involved in getting some of their subjects to participate.

Expelled Exposed - National Center for Science Education